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Chapter 658: Chapter 562: Zhongyu Special Guard’s African Market (Subscribe!)_1
Yunxin, guided by the fighter, entered the villa.
Seeing a group of people inside staring at her, Yunxin couldn’t help but feel a bit restrained. After all, apart from Tang Qing and Li Kai, whom she had met once, she didn’t know anyone else, which would make anyone nervous.
As soon as Yunxin entered, Tang Qing immediately stood up, pulling Lin Jiaxue and introducing with a smile, "Teacher Yunxin, good morning. This is your future student, Lin Jiaxue. We will be needing your help every weekend morning."
"Of course, hello, Miss Lin," Yunxin hastily reached out and said.
Tang Qing’s politeness was a bit unsettling for her. The tycoons she normally met were all the same. She isn’t beautiful, has no money, and comes from a humble background. It’s commendable if they could just nod and smile at her.
"Hello, Teacher Yun. Call me Jiaxue," Lin Jiaxue shook hands with Yunxin. It wasn’t until she saw Yunxin that she seemed to understand Tang Qing’s meaning. Indeed, it seemed that Yunxin’s family was indeed in a difficult situation.
"Sure, Jiaxue, are these your family?" Yunxin asked, looking at Wang Yan and the others.
Tang Qing interjected, "They are my friends, visiting my home. Have you had breakfast? If not, I’ll have someone prepare it immediately." Although Tang Qing felt his words were a bit cheesy, isn’t that the standard greeting among our people?
"I’ve eaten already. Can we start now?" Of course, Yunxin had had breakfast.
"Jiaxue, take Teacher Yunxin upstairs to study. I’ll look through some documents down here," Tang Qing said to Lin Jiaxue.
"Okay." Lin Jiaxue nodded and started leading Yunxin upstairs.
"I’ll come too," Wei Yiyi volunteered.
"Count me in," Wang Yan didn’t want to be left behind either.
The other women soon followed them upstairs.
Yunxin didn’t say anything. This was their territory, and there was no harm in watching. She followed Lin Jiaxue to the second floor and entered the art studio. She was shocked by the paintings on one of the walls.
She quickly moved to the largest painting, looked at it for a while, her eyes filled with excitement. The level of skill was almost beyond human capability. Stammering, she asked, "Who..who...is the master who painted this?"
"Tang Qing, the man who called you here." Lin Jiaxue proudly said, her face full of smiles. Her man is just that outstanding.
"Are all of these his?" Yunxin looked around, uncertainly.
"Yes." Lin Jiaxue nodded.
Upon receiving confirmation, Yunxin’s face became slightly bitter as she said, "Jiaxue, if he’s so good, why did he call me? He’s far better than me."
Lin Jiaxue quickly explained, "Tangtang has great talent, but lacks the experience of learning from the basics. Plus, he’s often busy, so Teacher Yunxin, we’ll be counting on you."
Yunxin understood.
"Alright, no problem."
Looking at this massive studio with everything, she wanted one too. But she knew there was little chance of that. She used to have one when her father had a good income, they had a big house, and she had her own studio.
But now...
Thinking about her father...
She felt a tightness in her chest. The once-famous master of Chinese painting, having lost his ability to paint, led a miserable life selling vegetables due to the damage to his hand’s meridians. She couldn’t help feeling desolate. But...perhaps this was fate.
It’s good to cherish what’s in front of her, and as long as she’s alive, there is hope.
Yunxin collected herself.
"Alright, Jiaxue, I need to understand your skill level first. Draw something you’re familiar with, let me see." Yunxin said.
"Okay."
Lin Jiaxue then sat down to draw a simple fruit. As for where the fruit came from?
The fighter waiting at the door wasn’t there for show.
After watching for a few minutes, Yunxin finally understood how bad Tang Qing’s half-assed teaching was. Teaching high-level skills to someone of a different level would result in a nebulous style.
In other words, Lin Jiaxue’s basic abilities are limited. She can’t grasp Tang Qing’s brushwork, techniques, or the god-like composition ability. Yunxin hurriedly stopped her.
"Alright, Jiaxue, I know what your problem is. From now on, we’ll start practicing basic brush strokes. You need to learn to use...the techniques of ordinary people." Yunxin bitterly laughed.
Looking at the paintings on the wall, she knew very well that Tang Qing’s skills are at the peak in the industry. He had the composition ability akin to a computer, not wasting anything, and every stroke carried a great significance.
She admitted she would never reach such a level in her lifetime. It was determined by talent.
"You’re right. I feel I can’t handle Tangtang’s technique," Lin Jiaxue agreed, nodding.
Afterwards...
Yunxin took on the responsibility of a teacher, teaching step by step from the basics. Thanks to her solid foundation and experience in teaching many students, she quickly opened the doors of drawing for Lin Jiaxue that she could currently grasp.
Others also listened on the sidelines, especially Wang Yan. She intended to learn everything that Lin Jiaxue learned and practice when she returned home. Although she and Tang Qing could possibly not be fated in this lifetime, it doesn’t prevent her from wanting to improve.
As Tang Qing’s woman became increasingly accomplished, she couldn’t fall behind. Last night, they had listened to Lin Jiaxue play a piano piece, and Wang Yan felt she needed to learn as well. Piano and music are inseparable after all.
...
Downstairs.
Tang Qing and Li Kai were sitting on the sofa.
In front of Tang Qing was a computer, and he was browsing the weekly reports of his subsidiary companies.
Li Kai didn’t disturb Tang Qing working. Through his father, he knew how massive Tang Qing’s industries were. The assets of Sheng Tang Group alone had exceeded one billion RMB, and Tang Qing also owned many other companies.
Comparatively speaking.
He was far behind Tang Qing, but considering Tang Qing’s talent, all Li Kai could feel was full respect. This guy was so rich yet so hardworking, what reason could he have to slack off.
So, Li Kai grabbed a useful business management book from the bookshelf in the living room and started reading.
Knowledge.
Sometimes it was a fantastic thing. When one had a goal, they would not feel bored.
Tang Qing carefully went over the operating conditions of all his subsidiary companies during this period. Like before, there were no problems. Sheng Tang Group was still opening new stores everywhere, Sky Eye was urgently recruiting, actively establishing cooperative relationships with experts and professors, and creating and building its own think tank.
Meanwhile, they were also developing office software fervently. Tang Qing had high hopes for it. He wasn’t afraid that the software wouldn’t sell; if he wanted to sell it, there were many ways. His group of friends alone could make Sky Eye profitable.
The bodyguard company, which had not made any significant moves, had recently started a large-scale recruitment. Since it was responsible for the security tasks of all its enterprises, especially Sheng Tang Group, whose stores were not small, each store needed at least one security guard.
In principle, security guards were not essential for clothing stores. However, Tang Qing still issued such an order: every store must have at least one. The main purpose was to create jobs for these retired soldiers.
Not only that.
Many security tasks under Sky Eye’s partners were also outsourced to his bodyguard company.
Liu Qian and his uncle outsourced a large number of security tasks to him. However, it was mainly for important places as the personnel from their bodyguard company were not cheap.
But that’s not the main point.
The main business was collaboration with Chai Ren.
Africa United Mining Group.
This large-scale mining enterprise that had been developed recently was very busy. Chai Ren’s father wanted to test the limits of the Black Prison’s strength, and he transferred a large number of problematic minerals to the group’s name continuously.
Eventually, all the issues were resolved by the soldiers, and most of the minerals had reached the mining stage now.
To mine the ores.
You need skilled workers and industrial equipment.
The local people in Africa were not suitable. The education level of Africans was generally too low, their actions were inefficient, and they had a habit of not working consistently. So, the only solution was to dispatch people from the domestic.
Although the Black Prison resolved the local mining conflicts and could mine normally, it was not responsible for the daily permanent security tasks.
So Chai Ren outsourced this task to his company. After all, the second-largest shareholder of the mining group had Tang Qing as a friend. He couldn’t recruit so many people willing to come under his name at the time, so it was better to outsource it to Tang Qing’s company.
So.
The bodyguard company was expanding rapidly during this period.
So far, the bodyguard company had over 1300 employees under its name, and the number was still increasing. All of them were retired soldiers from the domestic, of which more than 500 were to be stationed in Africa, distributed in over thirty mining fields.
They were not only responsible for security.
Sometimes, they might also have to take on transportation tasks, hence the need for so many people.
Tang Qing had also hesitated whether he should send them to such dangerous places. Therefore, he discussed it with the general manager of the bodyguard company, Gao Ming. Gao Ming was very excited upon hearing this.
He was looking forward to such an opportunity, or at least many retired soldiers under him were.
Because the income was high, they were not going to war but doing security work. As long as they didn’t mess around, it would be quite safe. Although African countries were not as stable as domestically, they would not attack mining fields and Chinese people randomly.
Especially, they could carry guns there.
Finally, based on the principle of voluntariness.
More than half of those eligible chose to go to Africa.
Because the wages were high.
The minimum was five thousand RMB, plus all sorts of miscellaneous allowances, amounting to seven to eight thousand. If the annual bonus was also counted, yearly earnings could potentially exceed one hundred thousand RMB.
What was this concept.
This was 2005.
An annual salary of one hundred thousand was almost equivalent to three to four hundred thousand ten years later. If they went there for two years, they could come back, build a house, and marry a wife without any significant issue.
The first batch that arrived in Africa was directly stunned. They couldn’t imagine that the Africa United Mining Group had such incredible capabilities. In three somewhat chaotic African countries, they had obtained a total of seventeen potassium transport vehicles for their daily patrols, equipped with powerful onboard weapons.
What the hell.
Are they playing too hard?
Who would dare to provoke them? Everyone was guessing about this mining group’s background, but no one could figure it out. All they knew was that it was incredibly powerful. They were stunned to realize that you, a business corporation, could drive potassium transport vehicles with weapons in a country. Even though it was an African country, that still was outrageously impressive.
